Just noticed today how many of the site members I had assumed were premium, arn't...

Seems strange to me, not only did it eliminate any lag i've had but it also gives you the awesome friends online banner on the main webpage in place of the advents... A feature which isn't mentioned much but if your on here as often as me... its well worth the investment and extemely useful.

So heres my advise get a paper round for a few days to earn the cash, then spend it here

There are some people that live here but still won't pay the tenner for premium, in my opinion for anyone that spends most of there time on here it's well worth the money, you'll certainly get ya moneys worth anyway!

Personally I think one additional thing for premium users would make the difference for a lot of people. Don't know what that is though haha. Few ideas:

- Premium only game type
- Premium only tournaments
- Premium chat room
- Contact us priority
- Different coloured name on forum

not sure what it would be for me but my personal opinion is i don't really want to pay for something i can play for free (example me and bro put to for xbox because we can't play online for free), for me personally the £10 is only for the coloured cues at the moment.

I am also rarely playing, sure i might have a few hours here and there but not the 10+ hours a day i used to be playing (personally think it was my 1st reset in 09 what did it and did me some good ).

i am not thinking this to be tight but its my personal view since premium was brought out and it might be a while before my mind is changed

If there were more premium benefits would that change your mind James?

I agree Adam more people would buy it, but the whole idea of premium in the first place was for just advert free gameplay and nothing else, which people were happy about at first.

I don't think Nick will be to bothered about adding anything else, because it doesn't benefit him anymore if people buy premium or not. If people didn't complain about the adverts in the first place then premium would never of been brought in.

The question is, would more money enable Nick to use a better server that crashes less often, and knowing this, would more people buy premium to fund it in much the same way as they do now to remove adverts? Or is that not how servers work?

i think someone mentioned being able to record on the game server (may have been me im not sure), sure there hypercam, camtasia etc but you can lag with ads using those, maybe premium would help it?

i agree adam new features would be helpful.

its not that i dislike premium by the way its just that my gameplay is fine with ads so i don't need to consider buying it but for others like jack who at one time couldn't play with ads it helped him a lot.

another reason is lag is a minor problem of mine, crashing and black screens is my main problem (on all browsers, mainly firefox and chrome) which sadly might not be fixed.

No idea how it works lol, but that doesn't sound to good cause people would have to pay more for premium so Nick has got more money to pay for a better server, and i don't think that would go down to well with many members!

i think nick said he could create a simple recorder

For me its simple, if I use it and like it I will pay for it to support it.

This goes for music, films, games, software pretty think anything that this model suits.

Admittedly im fortunate enough to be able to afford to do so, but £10 doesn;t seem much.

That one in bold, I think would be so daft. Just because you don't pay for it doesn't mean you are more important than the next member/query.

true but for now no ads isn't really going to improve my computer as i can play with ads, only time i tend to lag (on opera) is when i have youtube running and thats only a little lag, i haven't tried the recorder on opera yet though

my main focus is crashes and black screens, unfortunately premium can't solve it

at the moment the £10 for me is only for the cues which they do look nice but i can play without it.

I started to write a detailed reply, then decided this response was much simpler and easier:---->

CHEAPSKATE!

not sure what can be done to premium.

colour coded names is an alright one (bit like call of duty where you got to prestige 13 bought coloured clan tags then you could choose a colour).

other ideas maybe for premium only.

- more cloth options
- buy in tournaments (using tournapoints)
- tells you what balls you have potted during the break (e.g. 15 red, 15 blacks)
- themes for your profile

if i think of more ill edit

I think here is the reasoning. The Premium pays for the adverts that would have given Nick the same revenue (from what I understand) Therefore if people don't have a major issue with the adverts, then they will be unlikely to pay.

yeah sounds fair

The Revenue of Premium does counter balance what is produced from the Advertising, but at the same time the more people that pay for Premium then the site will make more money.

And it's a business, I'm sure Nick would like a return each month from Funky, but as Adam also mentioned More money = better equipment which means possibly a new Server which will Increase Dwell time, and also create less lagg espicially during busy periods on the game.

I think that Nick should intise people more by offering premium just that bit more extra, if any of you play Runescape or have done in the past it's a free game with a members option for £5 a month but for that you get:

Members only World
Members only Armour/Ammo etc
Members only Skills
Extra bank space to hold more stuff.

Obviously none of them things apply to here but some other things like:

Have 100 friends instead of 50
Members only games (Like Adam said for Tournaments)

And many many more.

As James said if the offer if not great then people won't buy it but if he offerd something that you though you would need then it would be purchased. I only buy Premium to donate to the site I use stand Cues etc but would be nice see more adaptions and more people willing to pay it, not even £1 a month remember that.

also my idea about 3 month, 6 month and 1 year installments, as some people may prefer the 3 month option

I love how people keep mentioning the server when that is fine, and it's just peoples connection to the server its self which is the problem.

But anyway, as stated, premium was only added to remove ads for certain users. I don't really see a need for anything extra for it. Plus I do think the site is too small to have much of a difference between normal accounts and premium.